Senior Data Architect: Databricks Lakehouse (Remote)

System One; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect to evolve an enterprise data platform and analytics ecosystem. The role focuses on defining lakehouse architecture and governance across analytics, AI workloads, and data integration, while working with business stakeholders and engineering teams to drive architecture decisions.

The ideal candidate will bring deep Databricks expertise, strong modeling skills, and proven ability to lead complex discussions, deliver scalable data

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, or enterprise data platform leadership roles.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions in Databricks.
• Strong experience with Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and Medallion Architecture.
• Strong experience designing conceptual, logical, physical, and dimensional data models.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience designing large-scale analytical data structures.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into scalable enterprise data architecture.
• Experience leading architecture discussions and influencing technical and business decision-makers.
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT architectures, data integration, transformation, governance, lineage, metadata management, and data quality principles.
• Experience managing multiple applications, stakeholders, projects, and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to proactively identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities while driving initiatives forward with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable enterprise data architecture solutions using Databricks Lakehouse and cloud data platform principles.
• Lead governance of Medallion Architecture patterns across Bronze, Silver, Gold layers.
• Create enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical) and dimensional models (star/snowflake).
• Define architecture standards, naming conventions, and best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and drive architecture decisions.
• Design data solutions integrating multiple sources while ensuring governance and data integrity.
• Define source-to-target mappings, definitions, transformations, and lineage requirements.
• Support migration from traditional DW to Databricks Lakehouse environments.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, ERDs, data dictionaries, and technical docs.
• Support metadata, lineage, data quality, stewardship, security, and access controls.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Medallion Architecture

Data Modeling

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data Governance

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Azure Databricks

ADLS

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Job description

System One is seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Architect to evolve an enterprise data platform and analytics ecosystem. The role focuses on defining lakehouse architecture and governance across analytics, AI workloads, and data integration, while working with business stakeholders and engineering teams to drive architecture decisions.

The ideal candidate will bring deep Databricks expertise, strong modeling skills, and proven ability to lead complex discussions, deliver scalable data